Author Archives: Mary Addison

When people Mary Fedden knew had babies, she made them little soft lions as a present. I mentioned them here when I was saying how much I enjoyed reading Christopher Andrae’s Mary Fedden: Enigmas and Variations (Lund Humphries, pbk. 2014) and I reproduced the 4 photographs of the soft toys that appeared in the book. Pat […]

This single scarlet poppy, hand embroidered and framed in the mattest and blackest of frames is the latest (and probably final) member of a group of 4 embroidered flowers now hanging, two by two, on either side of a mirror in daughter No 1’s bedroom. All very serendipity as the first three were rejects from […]